Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
MAXIM GORKYYou must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.
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An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how to express them in a convincing form.
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A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
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The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.
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With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that’s your own is dearer than a brother.
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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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In war it is necessary to kill as many people as possible — such is the cynical logic of war. Brutality in a fight is unavoidable; have you seen how cruelly children fight in the streets?
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Every new time will give its law.
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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.
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Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That’s why we want to be considerate of every man – Who knows what’s in him, why he was born and what he can do?
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Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty each and every one of us.
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It is quiet and peaceful here, the air is good, there are numerous gardens, and in them nightingales sing and spies lurk under the bushes.
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When a woman gets married it is like jumping into a hole in the ice in the middle of winter: you do it once and you remember it the rest of your days.
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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
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Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I’ve even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.
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Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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